Chrome 69 Removes WWW from URLs

In a not so surprising move, Google decided to implement a change in the 69th release of their web browsers that angered a lot of Chrome users.

More precisely, Chrome 69 strips the www. and m. subdomains from the URLs displayed in the address bar.

Thus, if you enter www.google.com and hit Enter, you expect the browser to load the page and display www.google.com in the address bar, but Chrome 69 will instead show you google.com.

Furthermore, the new Chrome release also removes the m. subdomain, traditionally used for web pages specifically designed for mobile browsers.

Although at first, it doesn't seem to be that big of a change and it looks quite harmless, not displaying parts of the URL in the address bar can confuse a lot of users especially considering that www.domain.com and domain.com point to different domains or web servers.

Additionally, if we dig even further, Chrome 69 will not... (read more)

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